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About Ian Drake
Ian Drake obtained his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2010. His teaching interests include the American judiciary and legal system, the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional history, the history and contemporary study of law and society, broadly construed, and political theory. His recent research interests include the history of American constitutional law and private law, particularly tort and insurance law. Dr. Drake is currently conducting research on animal protection laws, First Amendment rights, and the politics of the treatment of animals used in industrial agriculture and scientific research. Prior to earning his Ph.D. in history, Dr. Drake practiced law in the areas of insurance and tort law.NBN Episodes hosted by Ian:
September 2, 2024
The Map of Knowledge
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to the modern. In The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Y…
June 2, 2024
The Feminist War on Crime
Aya Gruber, a professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, has written a history of how the women’s movement in America has shaped the l…
February 20, 2024
Liberty in the Things of God
Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual…
April 6, 2022
Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama, founder and director of the think tank Justitia, has written a one-volume history of freedom of thought, which ranges from the lone D…
March 14, 2022
I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys is an acclaimed “crossover” author (read by both young people and adults) of historical novels. In her latest novel I Must Betray You (P…
February 10, 2022
A House Built by Slaves
Jonathan W. White, associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University, has authored a book that reveals the personability of Ab…
December 23, 2021
What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?
Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor of law at Maynooth University in Ireland, has written two revisionist articles about an incident from 180…
November 29, 2021
Dangerous Ideas
Eric Berkowitz has written a short history of a censorship, a large topic that has been a phenomenon since the advent of recorded history. In Dangero…
November 23, 2021
Alabama Justice
Steven P. Brown, professor of political science at Auburn University, has written a history of notable U.S. Supreme Cases and justices that hailed fro…
June 9, 2021
Why Should We Obey the Law?
In his new book Why Should We Obey the Law? (Polity Press, 2018), George Klosko, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the Universit…
May 4, 2021
Give Me Liberty
In Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea (Basic Books, 2019), Richard Brookhiser has written a history of an idea, liberty, using a…
April 5, 2021
Darkness at Noon
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darknes…
March 3, 2021
King of the World
Philip Mansel, a trustee of the Society for Court Studies and President of the Research Center of the Chateau de Versailles, has written a one-volume …
February 10, 2021
The Indomitable Florence Finch
Robert J. Mrazek, an author of eleven books and former congressman from New York, has written a gripping account of one the most determine heroines of…
January 11, 2021
I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics
We’ve all been there – the family dinners turned full-fledged political debates, the awkward chat in the kitchen at work, the difficulty of discussing…
December 23, 2020
Kinship, Law and Politics
Joseph E. David, Professor of Law at Sapir Academic College in Israel, has written an intellectual history of the concept of belonging. David reviews…
December 11, 2020
Being Sure of Each Other
Kimberley Brownlee, a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, has written a monograph addressing her argument in favor a right …
October 28, 2020
Defender in Chief
John Yoo, the Emanual S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, has written what he terms a surprising defens…
September 22, 2020
How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School
Kathryne M. Young, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written a combination of a sociological study …
February 5, 2020
Battle for the Marble Palace
Michael Bobelian has written a history of the nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968. In Battle for the Marble…
October 25, 2019
The Assault on American Excellence
Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School, has written an account of his view of the decline of the American university from a bastion of free i…
October 17, 2019
False Positive
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired physician in Great Britain, who has written an account of his year’s-worth of reading the New England Journal of Medic…